Vroom vroom Beaucoup vroom vroom, vroom vroom Piston Cup vroom vroom.
Geonna Tipton
NEWS WRITER
For this issue of The Vermilion Newspaper, my fellow coworkers and I went to the Piston Cup to see our hero Lightning McQueen perform in person! It was so cool! I decided to wear my favorite Lightning Mcqueen dress with a matching claw clip and bookbag and we left super early so we would be able to see all of the different cars that would be present.
Meeting McQueen was like a dream come true! Of course, he was very nonchalant about everything, but he answered our questions with ease. After seeing him, I went in search of Mator and found him eating snacks in the pit. Mater was super friendly! He even offered me some of his snacks, even though I’m pretty sure they were unfit for human consumption. It’s the thought that matters though.
Overall, I loved going to see the Piston Cup with my coworkers! It was the best trip all year and the race was fabulous as always. I would definitely go again!
Nyria Mustiful
PLASMA RADIOLOGIST
The Piston Cup was truly boring, with all due respect to all the cars that participated. As a plasma radiologist, I find entertainment within the realm of science. The only reason I came to the Piston Cup in the first place was because my friend, Globia Gourdeau, told me I’d be able to get some good plasma samples from the track. She has no idea that I’m canceling our monthly goop facial for lying to me!
One highlight of the experience was Lightning McQueen. I’ve never seen such an attractive man in my entire life. When the tournament ended, I slid over to the pit stop and made sure to catch him before he drove off. I told him that I was there to get some samples for my latest experiment, and he showed me some places I could look. I didn’t know that he was as smart as he was fast!
Kaelin Palmer
PHOTOGRAPHER
Today, I’ll be telling you a little bit about my experience at the Piston Cup. I wish I could say this is an April Fools joke, but I wouldn’t want my story to be made fun of. Although everyone was fangirling over Lightning McQueen, I made my way over to Doc Hudson to introduce myself before McQueen’s little tire servants told me to get lost. Which, first of all, imagine a CAR telling you to get lost. To this day, I don’t think I’ll recover.
To make matters worse, a car spun out of control, and I stood there in shock as I watched McQueen push them to the finish line. It was a respectable thing to do, even though Chick Hicks, a green car with a grille that oddly looked like a mustache, won the race and got booed. Lastly, I was given motor oil instead of soda and had to stand because I didn’t have wheels to sit on, so I’d say my overall experience there was pretty MATER-ocre. Get it? Mediocre? Nevermind…
Marie Ducote
GREGORIAN CHANT ENTHUSIAST
Wow! This was my first time at the Piston Cup, and I was amazed at how fast the cars were going. My ears were filled with the sound of ZOOM!, ZOOM! and ZOOM!!!!!! By the end of the night, my ears were ringing.
Anyway, let’s get to the action of the night. Lighting McQueen, of course, was in the lead the whole time and the crowd went wild every time he would zoom by. My group could very loudly hear Tow Mater cheering on his best friend. His cheers got the crowd hyped up for the finish line.
My popcorn flew out of its bucket as the cars went by and it got all in my hair. However, I was so into the race I didn’t even notice.
At the end of the race, fireworks came into the sky and then “Life is a Highway” started playing as Lightning McQueen became VICTORIOUS!!!!!!